Denis Pascal

Pianist

Denis Pascal has established himself as one of the most original figures of French piano, performing in France and around the world as a soloist as well as a chamber musician.
His career has developed largely abroad, with numerous appearances in Europe of course, but also in the United States (at the Lincoln Center and Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Herbst Theater in San Francisco); in Latin America (at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo); in Asia (at the Seoul Arts Center, at the Yokohama with the New Japan Philharmonic).
In France, he captured the audience of the Parisian venues (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Théâtre du Châtelet, Philharmonie, Auditorium of Radio France, Théâtre de la Ville, Salle Gaveau, Opéra Garnier), as well as that of numerous international festivals (ie. Folle Journée de Nantes, Roque d’Anthéron festivals, Festivals of Salon-de-Provence, Aix-en-Provence, Radio France and Montpellier, the Berlioz, Lisztomania and the Chopin Festivals in Nohant).
His discography reflects his musical commitments. He has recorded a complete set of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies, of which the color science and expressive power have been unanimously praised by the musical press (Shock of the Music World, Association Française Franz Liszt Prize, Recommended by Classica). Some discographic projects have received enormous recognition from critics: representing a perfect illustration of his immense curiosity, the monographic disc devoted to Jean Wiéner for Sisyphe was thus awarded a Diapason d’Or.
Alongside with François-Xavier Roth and the Les Siècles orchestra, he managed to renew our vision of Chopin’s two emblematic concertos. His CD devoted to Brahms and Berg with clarinettist Jérôme Comte was rewarded by the Académie Charles Cros. His latest publications around Schubert, and then Erik Satie, have been widely acclaimed by the French and foreign press, and, among other things, rewarded with a Choc from Classica magazine.
Denis Pascal is a highly sought-after pedagogue, he was appointed professor at the CNSM in Lyon, and then, in April 2011, at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris.